Tuesday, February 3, 2009

How I Met Your Mother – Recap & Review – The Possimpible

How I Met Your MotherThe Possimpible

Original Air Date: Feb 2, 2009

Rachel – TwoCents Associate Editorrachel@thetwocentscorp.com

So Robin still doesn’t have a job. She’s been auditioning right and left, but no joy. And, oddly enough, Metro News 1 is just now getting around to sending her her fan mail. Geeze, take you time why doncha!? While going through the letters (of which only 60% are from inmates), the gang watches poor little Lottery Girl, the butt of a series of Barney jokes. Robin would never get that desperate, right? Yeah. That was before she opened a letter from US Immigration. She has four days to get a job (in her field, mind you) or she will be deported. Fun times.

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So Robin still doesn’t have a job. She’s been auditioning right and left, but no joy. And, oddly enough, Metro News 1 is just now getting around to sending her her fan mail. Geeze, take you time why doncha!? While going through the letters (of which only 60% are from inmates), the gang watches poor little Lottery Girl, the butt of a series of Barney jokes. Robin would never get that desperate, right? Yeah. That was before she opened a letter from US Immigration. She has four days to get a job (in her field, mind you) or she will be deported. Fun times.

Robin has been trying to get a job for weeks and nothing. Now she has four days? Maybe her application reel isn’t up to snuff. The rest of the gang debates the merits of items on their resumes. Ted has a line about his stint as Dr. X, a lame college DJ; Marshall has that he was the 1995 Nicollet County Slam Dunk Champion; Lilly “The Belly” Aldren has her victory at the 1995 Coney Island Hotdog Eating Championship (she ate 29 in 8 minutes); and Barney? Yeah, Barney has video resume that is AWESOME. (You can visit it by logging onto www.barneysvideoresume.com.) Barney offers to help create a similar resume for Robin. Why not? She’ll try anything at this point.

Meanwhile, Marshall confesses something you Lilly; something horrendous. See, he has an injury commonly called “dancer’s hip” that he got playing basketball... if by “basketball” you mean dancing. It seems that every time Marshall is alone, he dances... and dances hard. Ted won’t stop making fun of him and Marshall retaliates by slamming Dr. X. Just when things start to get ugly, Lilly swoops in and tells the two babies that they need to take those “weak-ass crap” lines off of their resumes. This causes Marshall and Ted to turn on Lilly and bash her “weak-ass crap” Hotdog Eating Champion resume line.

Back to Robin’s video resume, things are getting ridiculous. After a parade of costumes, Barney tries to get Robin to break 15 bricks with her forehead. She knows things aren’t going to work out, and does the unthinkable: she auditions for the open Lottery Girl job. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Robin reaches her low point when she doesn’t even get the job. She’s going to have to move back to Canada.

While commiserating about the impending deportation, Barney barges in and tells Robin that he finished the video resume and sent it to every station in town. After getting several offers, and turning down almost all of them, Barney lands Robin the job of hosting a morning talk show on Channel 12. She can stay!

And what did the gang learn? They decided it was time to let some things go. Both Marshall and Ted take the Dr. X and Slam Dunk lines off their resumes. And Lilly? She decides to break her hot dog eating record and is able to update that line on her resume to 33. Go Lilly!

What do YOU think? What resume items are you having a hard time letting go? How awesome was Barney’s video resume? And how great were the two guys running the Lottery Girl auditions (I loved them!)? And how about working in Allison Hannigan’s pregnancy into the script with a tummy full of hotdogs? Give us your TwoCents… We’ll pitch in for some lottery tickets. We’re just in the mood.